On February 1, 2019, several days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Osama Al-Alfi, a former deputy editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram and now a columnist for the daily, published a column titled "The Truth about the Holocaust." Citing several Holocaust ...

Lebanese philosopher Dr. Ali Harb was featured in a two-part series on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) that aired on February 3 and 10, 2019. He said that while colonialism had its drawbacks, it created great opportunities for the Arab world and Arab societies to join modernity and emerge out...

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
Pakistani jihadi organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) shared on social media a video of Adil Ahmed Dar, the suicide bomber...

Since the beginning of winter, there have been increasing reports of the dire humanitarian conditions in the displaced persons camps in Syria and in the Syrian refugee camps in the neighboring countries. On January 15, 2019, it was reported that 15 displaced Syrian children, 13 o...

On February 10, 2019, IRINN TV (Iran) aired a report on Iran's underground "missile cities" that provide missiles for Iran's launchers and silos. The reporter said that the ballistic missiles are the "residents" of these cities and that they are "keepers of the calm" that are "re...

In a February 14, 2019 broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), the mother of Muhammad Said Muhammad Ali, a 19-year old Palestinian who was killed when he attacked Israeli policemen with a knife at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, said that her son had been "a lion." She praised how he w...

New York Imam Abul Baraa Muhammad Abdullah Amreeki delivered a sermon in which he quoted verses in the Quran that said that Muslims should not take Jews and Christians as allies. He said that it is very common today for Muslims to spy on, covertly monitor, and "entrap" other Musl...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vk.com/politics_today)
In The News:
...

In a letter to the contestants in the 12th Dar Al-Quran of the Imam Ali contest – a Quran memorization contest for women – which opened December 15, 2018 in Jamkaran, near the holy city of Qom in Iran, Iranian Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, a senior Shi'ite scholar and part of...

On February 14, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted another Sochi summit on the situation in Syria with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani.
Rosbalt published an interview with Russian Academy of Sciences Middle East expert A...

On February 11, Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov published an article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, titled "Putin’s Long State", in which he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ideology that the Kremlin is shaping.
In his article[1], Surkov underlined that Wes...

New Planet, 1921 by Konstantin Yuon.
Vladislav Surkov confers with Vladimir Putin (Source: Pravda.ru)
Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, who some have called the "Kremlin's Ideologist" (while others dismissively say it is a self-anointed title) and the coiner o...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

Ismail Al-Wahwah, leader of the Australia chapter of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir international pan-Islamist organization, who was arrested in Jordan in July 2018,[1] was moved in November 2018 to Jordan's maximum security Al Muwaqqar II prison. The prison also houses Al-Qaeda terrorists.[...

Recently, several Arab states have shown an inclination to renew their recognition of Bashar Al-Assad's regime as the legitimate ruler of Syria and to normalize their relations with it. For example, on December 16, 2018, Sudanese President 'Omar Al-Bashir became the first Arab he...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7891 – Imprisoned Hizb Ut-Tahrir Australia Lead...

On February 14, 2019, on the occasion of Valentine's Day, the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq published an article titled "Kill Valentine's Day," by journalist Ibtisam Aal Sa'd, in which she lamented the fact that some Qataris celebrate Christian holidays such as Valentine's Day...

On February 13, 2019, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei released an "important announcement on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution" directed at Iran's younger generation. The announcement included guidelines for actions and goals to be achieved for the next 40 years ...

The U.S.- and Poland-sponsored Warsaw summit, taking place in Poland February 13-14, 2019, was originally planned for discussing the issue of Iran, but was later defined as the "Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East."[1] U.S. Vice President Mike...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry posted its Islamic Education school textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. While encouraging jihad and the sacrifice of the soul,[1] prese...

In a December 6, 2018 article in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saleh Al-Qallab, a former Jordanian minister and currently a columnist for the government daily Al-Rai, contested the claim that Hamas is a Palestinian national liberation movement.[1] Qallab wrote that Ha...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry posted its Islamic Education school textbooks for Grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Grade 11 book devotes a chapter to the subject of orientali...

On January 27, 2019, an antisemitic lecture by Michigan-based Shi'ite Imam Bassem Al-Sheraa was uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Al-Zahraa Islamic Center, which is in Detroit. Al-Sheraa said that the Jews have distorted sacred texts and sanctioned the killing of prophets su...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: vk.com/politics_today)
In The News:
...

Introduction
On January 30, 2019, U.S. President Trump criticized the U.S. intelligence community's Worldwide Threat Assessment, released January 29, 2019,[1] tweeting that it is "naïve"[2] about the danger posed by Iran. MEMRI research in recent years shows that the Iranian r...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The books for Grades 7-11 devote considerable space to the at...

U.S. President Donald Trump's official recognition of Venezuelan National Assembly President and opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president, in place of Nicolas Maduro, evoked harsh criticism in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA), from both officials and column...

With America stepping down from its involvement in Afghanistan, Russia is preparing for the future. On February 6-7, a conference organized presumably by the Afghan diaspora took place in Moscow's President Hotel that belongs to the presidential administration. The Russian Minist...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was interviewed on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on January 30, 2019. He said that Iran is neither rich nor poor when it comes to uranium and that it is working to produce a strategic uranium reserve. He said that testin...

On February 2, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow suspended the INF Treaty.
The Russian decision came in response to the American February 1 announcemen...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7883 – An Overview Of The INF Treaty And Its Su...

In late January 2019, MEMRI released clips of lectures and sermons of Pittsburgh-based Imam Naeem Abdullah, of the Masjid Al-Mu'min mosque and the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the clips, Imam Abdullah stated that the Jews are "running everything" a...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. One of the subjects addressed in the books is the meaning of the te...

On February 6, 2019, Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hizbullah, delivered a speech at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. He praised Iran for supporting Palestinian, Lebanese, and regional resistance movements, and said that Iran was ...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Islamic Education textbook for grade 11 devotes an entire chapt...

The Russian media outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda teamed up with Igor Korotchenko the editor-in-chief of the magazine National Defense, to answer the main questions arising from the suspension of the INF Treaty, and explain Russia's point of view on the issue.[1]
Below are excerpt...

New Jersey-based Imam Mateen Khan said during a lecture at the Muslim Center of Middlesex County, NJ, (MCMC) that liberalism is a philosophy that requires everybody to adopt it, and that holds that those who don't accept liberalism are a threat. Giving the example of Afghanistan,...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Islamic Education textbooks for grade 6, 8, 9 and 12 deal exten...

Palestinian Journalist Hussam Al-Dajany, who also lectures at Gaza Open University, said in a January 30, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that Hamas is accepting Bitcoin donations. He said that Bitcoin is an opportunity to unite people who are afraid to or cannot openly...

Tehran's harsh policy in the Syrian conflict is increasingly at variance with the interests of Moscow in the region, says Russian expert Alexander Shumilin in an interview with the Russian media outlet Rosbalt.ru.
The interview with Shumilin, the director of the Center of Mid...

In a February 2, 2019 interview with Iran's Channel 2 TV, Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), explained the Iranian regime's "defense and deterrence strategy" in light of the threats against it. He said: "The two pillars of our de...

Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the IRGC, said on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on February 2, 2019, that Iran has the experience and technological ability necessary to expand the stealth capabilities, destructive capacity, and range of its missile force, and that it has not done s...

In the course of January 2019, the Syrian regime and its affiliated media escalated their statements against Israel. The statements came in response to Israel's continued attacks against the Iranian presence in Syria: On January 11, a Syrian military source reported that Is...

On February 2, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow suspended the INF Treaty.
The Russian decision came in response to the American February 1 announcemen...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vk.com/politics_today)
In The News
...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

On January 31, 2019, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Russia may have helped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro sell Venezuela's gold. It stated that on January 29, a Boeing 757 cargo plane loaded with gold took off from Moscow and flew via Dubai, where it unloa...

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Wasim 'Afifi, a columnist on the Egyptian news portal Elmwatin.com, published an article in which he listed "five reasons that caused the Arab world to reject the veracity of the Holocaust." He stated that the media infl...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7871 – Russia In The World – Russia's Moscow-Ca...

Russian officials blamed the Venezuela crisis almost exclusively on the US. However, some Russian commentators are convinced that the "American blitzkrieg has failed" and that Maduro will remain in power, strengthened by the support of the Venezuelan army and the international co...

In lectures uploaded October 2016-January 2019 to the YouTube channel of the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh-based Imam Naeem Abdullah focused on the subject of the Jews. He said that the "American empire is often considered by many scholars to be....

Introduction
As the impact of the U.S. sanctions on Iran's economy increases, after even countries that oppose U.S. policy are complying with them, Iraq's importance to the survival of Iran's regime and economy increases as well.
Underlining Iraq's importance to Iran,...

U.S. President Trump's December 19, 2018 announcement that the U.S. would withdraw its forces from Syria came as a surprise to many, and prompted a range of reactions in Syria, Arab countries, and worldwide.[1] Most reactions from the Syrian opposition reflected disappointment al...

Following U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as that country's legitimate president, not President Nicolas Maduro, Hizbullah declared its support for Maduro, condemned the "attempted overthrow" that it said was orchestrated by th...

On January 23, the Speaker of the Venezuelan Parliament and opposition leader Juan Guaido, 35 years old, declared himself president ad interim, during an opposition rally in Caracas. President Donald Trump, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis A...

A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country... [whose] m...

A January 25, 2019 article in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hizbullah, protested against what it described as emerging security cooperation between France and Israel in Syria. The article claimed, citing "knowledgeable" French sources, that during the recent vis...

Despite, the tumultuous welcome in Serbia for Vladimir Putin, Russia-Serbia relations are not as good as they seem, Russian and Serbian journalists commented on the hidden tensions in their reactions to the Russian President's visit to Serbia.
The Serbian leadership wants the ...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

As Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist, announces his candidacy for the Afghan presidency, MEMRI presents archival material – a column published March 23, 2005 in the New York Sun by MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky – that inc...

On January 23, 2019, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida reported that Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had, on January 18, visited a city in southern Syria near the Syria-Israel border. By doing so, he violated the Israel...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7861 – Kuwaiti Daily: IRGC Qods Force Commander...

Secretary-General of the Al-Nujaba militia in Iraq, Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi, was interviewed on the organization's TV network, Al-Nujaba TV, on January 1, 2019. Al-Kaabi said that the IRGC and Lebanese Hizbullah helped the militant Shi'ite forces that were fighting the U.S. forces ...

In his January 22, 2019 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, the newspaper's former editor and CEO of Al-Arabiya TV, stated that the Arab heads of state had skipped the Beirut economic summit for security reasons, as they feared violence on...

It was clear that Vladimir Putin's state visit to Serbia would be a rousing success. Putin, a ranking world leader represents Serbia's historic and current protector. Russia has given Serbia backing on the issue of Kosovo whereas Serbia has never forgiven the West for steamrollin...

During an interview with German-Egyptian political scientist and author Hamed Abdel-Samad that was uploaded to Abdel-Samad's YouTube channel on January 14, 2019, Egyptian-Canadian writer Said Shoaib said that imams in the West embrace colonialist Islam and deceive Westerners by t...

In a January 1, 2019 article in the Iranian regime mouthpiece Kayhan, Sadollah Zarei, a member of Kayhan's editorial board, called for creating a "resistance league" to replace the Arab League, saying that the latter no longer has any influence and that its Arab members act again...

Islamic State (ISIS) supporters and other jihadis from around the world are using the Austin, Texas-based communication application Zello for planning and executing terrorist attacks in the U.S., the U.K., European countries, Turkey, and elsewhere around the world. On January 30,...

On February 1, 2019, several days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Osama Al-Alfi, a former deputy editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram and now a columnist for the daily, published a column titled "The Truth about the Holocaust." Citing several Holocaust ...

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
Pakistani jihadi organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) shared on social media a video of Adil Ahmed Dar, the suicide bomber...

Lebanese philosopher Dr. Ali Harb was featured in a two-part series on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) that aired on February 3 and 10, 2019. He said that while colonialism had its drawbacks, it created great opportunities for the Arab world and Arab societies to join modernity and emerge out...

Since the beginning of winter, there have been increasing reports of the dire humanitarian conditions in the displaced persons camps in Syria and in the Syrian refugee camps in the neighboring countries. On January 15, 2019, it was reported that 15 displaced Syrian children, 13 o...

In a February 14, 2019 broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), the mother of Muhammad Said Muhammad Ali, a 19-year old Palestinian who was killed when he attacked Israeli policemen with a knife at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, said that her son had been "a lion." She praised how he w...

On February 10, 2019, IRINN TV (Iran) aired a report on Iran's underground "missile cities" that provide missiles for Iran's launchers and silos. The reporter said that the ballistic missiles are the "residents" of these cities and that they are "keepers of the calm" that are "re...

New York Imam Abul Baraa Muhammad Abdullah Amreeki delivered a sermon in which he quoted verses in the Quran that said that Muslims should not take Jews and Christians as allies. He said that it is very common today for Muslims to spy on, covertly monitor, and "entrap" other Musl...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vk.com/politics_today)
In The News:
...

In a letter to the contestants in the 12th Dar Al-Quran of the Imam Ali contest – a Quran memorization contest for women – which opened December 15, 2018 in Jamkaran, near the holy city of Qom in Iran, Iranian Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, a senior Shi'ite scholar and part of...

On February 14, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted another Sochi summit on the situation in Syria with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hassan Rouhani.
Rosbalt published an interview with Russian Academy of Sciences Middle East expert A...

On February 11, Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov published an article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, titled "Putin’s Long State", in which he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ideology that the Kremlin is shaping.
In his article[1], Surkov underlined that Wes...

New Planet, 1921 by Konstantin Yuon.
Vladislav Surkov confers with Vladimir Putin (Source: Pravda.ru)
Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, who some have called the "Kremlin's Ideologist" (while others dismissively say it is a self-anointed title) and the coiner o...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7891 – Imprisoned Hizb Ut-Tahrir Australia Lead...

Ismail Al-Wahwah, leader of the Australia chapter of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir international pan-Islamist organization, who was arrested in Jordan in July 2018,[1] was moved in November 2018 to Jordan's maximum security Al Muwaqqar II prison. The prison also houses Al-Qaeda terrorists.[...

Recently, several Arab states have shown an inclination to renew their recognition of Bashar Al-Assad's regime as the legitimate ruler of Syria and to normalize their relations with it. For example, on December 16, 2018, Sudanese President 'Omar Al-Bashir became the first Arab he...

On February 14, 2019, on the occasion of Valentine's Day, the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq published an article titled "Kill Valentine's Day," by journalist Ibtisam Aal Sa'd, in which she lamented the fact that some Qataris celebrate Christian holidays such as Valentine's Day...

The U.S.- and Poland-sponsored Warsaw summit, taking place in Poland February 13-14, 2019, was originally planned for discussing the issue of Iran, but was later defined as the "Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East."[1] U.S. Vice President Mike...

In a December 6, 2018 article in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saleh Al-Qallab, a former Jordanian minister and currently a columnist for the government daily Al-Rai, contested the claim that Hamas is a Palestinian national liberation movement.[1] Qallab wrote that Ha...

On January 27, 2019, an antisemitic lecture by Michigan-based Shi'ite Imam Bassem Al-Sheraa was uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Al-Zahraa Islamic Center, which is in Detroit. Al-Sheraa said that the Jews have distorted sacred texts and sanctioned the killing of prophets su...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: vk.com/politics_today)
In The News:
...

Introduction
On January 30, 2019, U.S. President Trump criticized the U.S. intelligence community's Worldwide Threat Assessment, released January 29, 2019,[1] tweeting that it is "naïve"[2] about the danger posed by Iran. MEMRI research in recent years shows that the Iranian r...

U.S. President Donald Trump's official recognition of Venezuelan National Assembly President and opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president, in place of Nicolas Maduro, evoked harsh criticism in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA), from both officials and column...

With America stepping down from its involvement in Afghanistan, Russia is preparing for the future. On February 6-7, a conference organized presumably by the Afghan diaspora took place in Moscow's President Hotel that belongs to the presidential administration. The Russian Minist...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

On February 2, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow suspended the INF Treaty.
The Russian decision came in response to the American February 1 announcemen...

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was interviewed on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on January 30, 2019. He said that Iran is neither rich nor poor when it comes to uranium and that it is working to produce a strategic uranium reserve. He said that testin...

In late January 2019, MEMRI released clips of lectures and sermons of Pittsburgh-based Imam Naeem Abdullah, of the Masjid Al-Mu'min mosque and the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the clips, Imam Abdullah stated that the Jews are "running everything" a...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7883 – An Overview Of The INF Treaty And Its Su...

On February 6, 2019, Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hizbullah, delivered a speech at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. He praised Iran for supporting Palestinian, Lebanese, and regional resistance movements, and said that Iran was ...

The Russian media outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda teamed up with Igor Korotchenko the editor-in-chief of the magazine National Defense, to answer the main questions arising from the suspension of the INF Treaty, and explain Russia's point of view on the issue.[1]
Below are excerpt...

New Jersey-based Imam Mateen Khan said during a lecture at the Muslim Center of Middlesex County, NJ, (MCMC) that liberalism is a philosophy that requires everybody to adopt it, and that holds that those who don't accept liberalism are a threat. Giving the example of Afghanistan,...

Palestinian Journalist Hussam Al-Dajany, who also lectures at Gaza Open University, said in a January 30, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that Hamas is accepting Bitcoin donations. He said that Bitcoin is an opportunity to unite people who are afraid to or cannot openly...

Tehran's harsh policy in the Syrian conflict is increasingly at variance with the interests of Moscow in the region, says Russian expert Alexander Shumilin in an interview with the Russian media outlet Rosbalt.ru.
The interview with Shumilin, the director of the Center of Mid...

In a February 2, 2019 interview with Iran's Channel 2 TV, Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), explained the Iranian regime's "defense and deterrence strategy" in light of the threats against it. He said: "The two pillars of our de...

Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the IRGC, said on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on February 2, 2019, that Iran has the experience and technological ability necessary to expand the stealth capabilities, destructive capacity, and range of its missile force, and that it has not done s...

In the course of January 2019, the Syrian regime and its affiliated media escalated their statements against Israel. The statements came in response to Israel's continued attacks against the Iranian presence in Syria: On January 11, a Syrian military source reported that Is...

On February 2, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow suspended the INF Treaty.
The Russian decision came in response to the American February 1 announcemen...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vk.com/politics_today)
In The News
...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7871 – Russia In The World – Russia's Moscow-Ca...

On January 31, 2019, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that Russia may have helped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro sell Venezuela's gold. It stated that on January 29, a Boeing 757 cargo plane loaded with gold took off from Moscow and flew via Dubai, where it unloa...

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Wasim 'Afifi, a columnist on the Egyptian news portal Elmwatin.com, published an article in which he listed "five reasons that caused the Arab world to reject the veracity of the Holocaust." He stated that the media infl...

Russian officials blamed the Venezuela crisis almost exclusively on the US. However, some Russian commentators are convinced that the "American blitzkrieg has failed" and that Maduro will remain in power, strengthened by the support of the Venezuelan army and the international co...

In lectures uploaded October 2016-January 2019 to the YouTube channel of the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh-based Imam Naeem Abdullah focused on the subject of the Jews. He said that the "American empire is often considered by many scholars to be....

U.S. President Trump's December 19, 2018 announcement that the U.S. would withdraw its forces from Syria came as a surprise to many, and prompted a range of reactions in Syria, Arab countries, and worldwide.[1] Most reactions from the Syrian opposition reflected disappointment al...

Following U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as that country's legitimate president, not President Nicolas Maduro, Hizbullah declared its support for Maduro, condemned the "attempted overthrow" that it said was orchestrated by th...

On January 23, the Speaker of the Venezuelan Parliament and opposition leader Juan Guaido, 35 years old, declared himself president ad interim, during an opposition rally in Caracas. President Donald Trump, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis A...

A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country... [whose] m...

A January 25, 2019 article in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hizbullah, protested against what it described as emerging security cooperation between France and Israel in Syria. The article claimed, citing "knowledgeable" French sources, that during the recent vis...

Despite, the tumultuous welcome in Serbia for Vladimir Putin, Russia-Serbia relations are not as good as they seem, Russian and Serbian journalists commented on the hidden tensions in their reactions to the Russian President's visit to Serbia.
The Serbian leadership wants the ...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7861 – Kuwaiti Daily: IRGC Qods Force Commander...

As Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist, announces his candidacy for the Afghan presidency, MEMRI presents archival material – a column published March 23, 2005 in the New York Sun by MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky – that inc...

On January 23, 2019, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida reported that Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had, on January 18, visited a city in southern Syria near the Syria-Israel border. By doing so, he violated the Israel...

Secretary-General of the Al-Nujaba militia in Iraq, Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi, was interviewed on the organization's TV network, Al-Nujaba TV, on January 1, 2019. Al-Kaabi said that the IRGC and Lebanese Hizbullah helped the militant Shi'ite forces that were fighting the U.S. forces ...

In his January 22, 2019 column in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, the newspaper's former editor and CEO of Al-Arabiya TV, stated that the Arab heads of state had skipped the Beirut economic summit for security reasons, as they feared violence on...

It was clear that Vladimir Putin's state visit to Serbia would be a rousing success. Putin, a ranking world leader represents Serbia's historic and current protector. Russia has given Serbia backing on the issue of Kosovo whereas Serbia has never forgiven the West for steamrollin...

In a January 1, 2019 article in the Iranian regime mouthpiece Kayhan, Sadollah Zarei, a member of Kayhan's editorial board, called for creating a "resistance league" to replace the Arab League, saying that the latter no longer has any influence and that its Arab members act again...

During an interview with German-Egyptian political scientist and author Hamed Abdel-Samad that was uploaded to Abdel-Samad's YouTube channel on January 14, 2019, Egyptian-Canadian writer Said Shoaib said that imams in the West embrace colonialist Islam and deceive Westerners by t...

Syrian opposition activist and writer Issam Zeitoun appeared on a debate about Israel on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on January 16, 2019. Zeitoun said that Israel is an existing country to which some Arabs turn a blind eye. Ra'ed Al-Masri, a Lebanese professor of political science...

At the December 2018 Buenos Aires G-20 summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and the two apparently decided to accelerate talks on the territorial dispute between the two countries in the hope of reaching an agreement that will allow them to sig...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
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The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Inquiry and Analysis Report No. 1432 – Debate In Lebanon On Inviting...

In an October 25, 2018 article in the English-language Kuwaiti daily Arab Times, liberal journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf wrote that the humanity and civility of a country are measured by the status it accords to its women, among other criteria. He lamented the fact that the Kuwaiti au...

On January 5, 2019, the South African-born[1] Canadian cleric Younus Kathrada uploaded a video to the Muslim Youth of Victoria Facebook page in which he responded to the media backlash that followed the release of a MEMRI TV video documenting a sermon that was uploaded to the Int...

On January 1, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin led the Russian delegation that took part in the inauguration ceremony of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.[1] Volodin conveyed congratulations from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Bolsonaro.[2]
The Russian government w...

On February 13, 2019, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei released an "important announcement on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution" directed at Iran's younger generation. The announcement included guidelines for actions and goals to be achieved for the next 40 years ...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry posted its Islamic Education school textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. While encouraging jihad and the sacrifice of the soul,[1] prese...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry posted its Islamic Education school textbooks for Grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Grade 11 book devotes a chapter to the subject of orientali...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The books for Grades 7-11 devote considerable space to the at...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. One of the subjects addressed in the books is the meaning of the te...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Islamic Education textbook for grade 11 devotes an entire chapt...

By: MEMRI Staff
Introduction
The website of the Qatari Education Ministry has posted the Islamic Education textbooks for grades 1-12 in Qatari state schools, for the first half of the 2018/2019 school year. The Islamic Education textbooks for grade 6, 8, 9 and 12 deal exten...

Introduction
As the impact of the U.S. sanctions on Iran's economy increases, after even countries that oppose U.S. policy are complying with them, Iraq's importance to the survival of Iran's regime and economy increases as well.
Underlining Iraq's importance to Iran,...

Introduction
Relations between Fatah, headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud 'Abbas, and Hamas are now extremely tense, and the two organizations' positions have not been farther apart since the 2007 Hamas coup against the PA in Gaza. In recent weeks, the tensi...

The Arab League Economic Summit, due to take place in Beirut on January 20, 2019, is to deal with the economic crisis in Lebanon and the reconstruction of Syria, among other issues. On January 16, the Arab Private Sector Forum convened in Beirut, with the participation of Lebanes...

Introduction
Since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government of President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2013, several TV channels affiliated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have started broadcasting from Turkey. Journalists, pundits, activists, and Islamic...

Introduction
Since the Syrian regime and its allies, Iran and Russia, regained control of southern Syria in July 2018, there have been increasing reports on websites opposed to the regime of a growing presence of pro-Iranian forces in this region and close to Syria's borders w...

The exposure of the tunnels dug by Hizbullah into Israeli territory – which constitute a violation of UNSC Resolution 1701 and are further evidence that the organization acts on its own initiative in disregard of the state authorities – sparked criticism against Hizbullah in Leba...

On September 15, 2018, the Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that, in May, Qatar had stopped funding a group of Gaza schools operated by Hamas's Dar Al-Arqam association. According to the report, the Qatari institution that had funded the schools gradually decre...

Introduction
In recent months, King 'Abdallah II of Jordan has been facing growing criticism within the country and calls to limit his powers, from both popular elements and political circles. On October 6, 2018, the "National Follow-Up Committee," a group of 143 politicians ...

By: MEMRI JTTM Staff
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Introduction
On November 26, 2018, four-year-old Yasmine Atid and her mothe...

In addressing the West about the October 2, 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents the need for strong measures against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman personally, as a human imperative and a...

A draft law to ban the niqab (full-face veil) in public places, which was recently submitted by Egyptian MPs, stirred a heated public debate in the country, and articles for and against it were published in the Egyptian press.
The issue of the Islamic dress code for women per...

Introduction
The French website Démocratie participative ("Participating in Democracy," Democratieparticipative.biz) is openly and proudly antisemitic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ, and a platform for aggressive populist sentiment against anyone not white, Christian, or straight unl...

The tension between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which has been ongoing for 18 months, intensified even further following the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.[1] Known for his criticism of the Saudi authorities and support for the Muslim Brotherhood (which Saudi...

Introduction
The Palestinian street is in an uproar after a right-wing religious Jewish organization purchased a three-story building in Jerusalem's Old City, near Herod's Gate. The house, originally owned by the distinguished Joudeh family, was sold in April 2018 to a compan...

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On June 27, 2018, the court board of the second criminal court of Sakarya province in Turkey sentenced Halis Bayancuk aka...

While it has been known that the religious scholars of the Deobandi school of Islam have supported and nurtured the Islamist and jihadi groups, the rise of the wheelchair-bound Barelvi cleric Maulvi Khadim Hussain Rizvi in Pakistan is engendering a new kind of Islamist threat in ...

In the recent months, tensions have increased between the Yemeni government and Hizbullah, who is accused of supporting and arming the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The tension between the two sides rose after a Houthi delegation openly visited Lebanon on August 18, 2018 an...

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Introduction
Some seven and a half years after the start of the uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Ass...

By: Mansour Al-Hadj*
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In the years following the events of the Arab Spring, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has...

Iran will never withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), aka the Iran nuclear deal, because this agreement (once the limits it imposes expire) grants Iran the recognized legal status of a nuclear state, with the official recognition and seal of the UN Securit...

In recent weeks, indirect contacts and negotiations have been taking place between Israel and Hamas, with Egyptian, Qatari and UN mediation, aimed at achieving an "arrangement" for a long-term ceasefire allowing the easing of restrictions on Gaza and the provision of humani...

On April 21, 2018, the French daily Le Parisien published a manifesto signed by over 250 French public figures, including former president Nicolas Sarkozy, former prime minister Manuel Valls, and famous singer Charles Aznavour, condemning the "new antisemitism" that radical Islam...

The first few months of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's second term have been notable for his suppression of potential opponents and for his prevention of any criticism of him – even from elements who once supported him, or from social activists who so far had been allo...

Introduction
In recent years Egypt has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. This crisis came to a head in 2016, prompting the government to accept an IMF reform plan which involved eliminating subsidies and raising the cost of goods and services.[1] As part of the refo...

Introduction
An examination of developments that can be expected in the Iran-U.S. confrontation requires first an understanding of the policy of U.S. President Donald Trump, both in general and in how this policy is reflected in his approach to Iran.
Trump's Policy
Pres...

In recent weeks, the Qatari media has been slamming the Trump administration's efforts to advance a regional peace plan that has come to be known as the "Deal of the Century." Qatari media reports and articles about this plan have described it as serving Israel's interests while ...

Recently, the Syrian army and the forces that back it, with the support of the Russians, managed to take control of a large part of the Dar'a governorate in southern Syria. This occurred following a military campaign against Syrian opposition factions that began on June 19, 2018....

By: N. Licht
The 2018 World Cup, held this summer in Russia, is addressed in many cartoons in the global media, including in the Arab world. Many of the cartoons in the Arab media express disappointment and criticism over the poor performance of the Arab teams, especially sinc...

Introduction
On April 11, 2018, on Capitol Hill, the chief of the U.S Capitol Police testified in a hearing that provided insight into terrorist threats to Washington, D.C. The locations and institutions threatened have included areas around Capitol Hill not far from the White...

Introduction
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to take active measures against Iran, the Iranian regime is already showing signs of economic and political collapse, although throughout the 40 years of its existence it has presented itself as a powerful regime that ben...

Introduction
In recent years, Jordan has been experiencing a grave and ongoing economic crisis that is steadily worsening due to the influx of Syrian refugees to the country and the diminishing of foreign aid. Jordanian King 'Abdallah addressed this in a June 4, 2018 meeting w...

Introduction
A campaign launched in the West Bank several weeks ago calls for lifting the sanctions that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has imposed on the Gaza Strip, which include the withholding of salaries from PA civil servants in Gaza and cutting the PA's payments to Isra...

Introduction
On May 20, 2018, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud 'Abbas, who is 83, was rushed to a Ramallah hospital following complications from middle ear surgery five days previously. The international Arab press reported that he had pneumonitis and a high fever,...

Introduction
In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA nuclear deal, Iranian regime officials have stated that they were prepared for this possibility, and some even spoke about an immediate resumption of uranium enrichment and of Iran's nuclear program. Howe...

Among the Saudi intellectuals, journalists and writers who have recently been expressing open support for Israel,[1] the voice of intellectual 'Abd Al-Hamid Al-Hakim was especially prominent. Al-Hakim, until recently the director of the Middle East Center for Strategic and L...

Introduction:
The mounting tension between Israel and Iran, which came to a head with Iran's firing of missiles at Israel from Syrian territory and Israel's counterattack on Iranian sites in that country, sparked a debate in Saudi Arabia regarding which side Saudis should supp...

Introduction
The U.S.'s withdrawal from the JCPOA is only one element in the Trump administration's new comprehensive strategy against Iran's Islamic Revolution, with all its elements – political, military, economic, and regional. The U.S.'s reinstatement of the economic sanct...

Introduction
In his May 8, 2018 speech, U.S. President Donald Trump turned the tables on Iran, on its European partners, and on supporters of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) worldwide, when he announced that the U.S. was withdrawing from the agreement. Following this, Iran is no...

Introduction
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, could not be achieved until Iran was cleared of suspicions that it had worked on developing nuclear weapons. This was because earlier, in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Ag...

Ever since suspicions arose in 2002 that Iran has a military nuclear program – when the Mujahideen Khalq organization exposed that Iran was secretly enriching uranium without the consent or knowledge of the IAEA – the Iranian regime leaders, from both the ideological camp an...

According to reports in Western media, Britain, France, and Germany are agreeing with U.S. President Donald Trump that Iran's ballistic missile program and Iran's expansion in the region constitute a threat for the region and its security and stability.[1]
To date, Iran has fi...

In light of Israel's recent military operations against Iran's military expansion in Syria, comprising strikes against strategic Iranian and Syrian targets such as Iran-controlled airfields, missile bases, and drone bases, Iran now faces a strategic question: whether to respond t...

In recent weeks, there have been indications of a possible shift in Saudi Arabia's policy vis-à-vis Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and recognition of his regime. These indications have prompted various predictions regarding the possibility of normalization of Saudi-Syrian relat...

Al-Qaeda's Telegram presence has been largely maintained by Arabic-language channels such as Al-Qaeda's media wing Al-Sahab, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), and channels belonging to Al-Qaeda's regional branches, such as Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsul...

In advance of Iran's National Nuclear Technology Day, on April 9, this document focuses on a number of steps taken by the Iranian regime to maintain and further develop Iran's nuclear capabilities – steps that deviate from the framework of the JCPOA nuclear deal, and that in some...

On December 11, 2017, Iranian media and media affiliated with the resistance axis reported that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Qods (Jerusalem) Force, had spoken on the phone with commanders of the military wings of both Hamas and P...

On January 30, 2018, the Syrian Congress of National Dialogue was held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. The conference, led by Russia, was part of that country's efforts to advance a political solution for the Syria crisis.
The week before the conference, on January 2...

Preface
Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent 9/11 Commission Report recommendations, a Telegram cryptocurrency will shatter all the lessons learned about terrorism financing, and will be used to fund terrorism worldwide. The recomme...

Faced with enormous pressure from the global coalition, and following its defeats on the battlefield, recently numerous Islamic State (ISIS) fighters who operated in Syria and Iraq have deserted. Some have returned to their families in Syria and Iraq. Others, from countries outsi...

Introduction
The presidential elections in Egypt, slated for March 26-28, 2018, are expected to result in a second term for President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi.[1] His almost inevitable win is the result of the stagnation in Egypt's political system, which has failed to produce ...

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In early March 2018, senior leaders of the Salafi-jihadi stream in the Ein Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon ...

Introduction
In recent months, and especially ahead of Egypt's upcoming presidential elections, set for March 26-28, 2018, the Egyptian media has been experiencing upheavals and pressures that have caused it to significantly decrease its criticism of President 'Abd Al-Fattah A...

Introduction
In advance of Egypt's presidential elections, set for late March 2018, the Egyptian regime has been acting to thwart the candidacies of Egyptian public figures. This comes against the backdrop of its repression of opposition elements and its obstruction of regist...

Introduction
Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for March 26-28, 2018. Only two months ahead of the elections, incumbent President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi announced that he would seek a second term in office. He made the announcement at a January 19, 2018 conference ...

Introduction
In July 2017, the Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks for the 2017-18 school year were published. Some of the books are new, and some remained unchanged. An examination of the middle-school books for Islamic Education, some of which have been replaced, shows a ...

Introduction
The December 21, 2017 introduction, in the U.S. House of Representatives, of a bill calling on the government of Egypt to enact reforms ensuring that Egypt's Coptic Christians have "the same rights and opportunities as all other Egyptian citizens" and that it "end...

Introduction
On January 16, 2018, the government of Pakistan unveiled a fatwa ("Islamic decree"), which was described as the Pakistani "nation's unanimous declaration to counter extremism and end terrorism."[1] Media reports said that the fatwa was seconded by more than 1,...

Introduction
For years, Jordan has been in economic crisis, with a budget deficit and a large public debt. Most of the revenue for the budget comes from aid in the form of grants from its allies, primarily the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, but these have been reduced in recent years....

The cover page of the book Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews").
This is a book review of Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews"), authored by Maulana Masood Azhar, the emir of Pakistani jihadi organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), and p...

Introduction
On February 10, 2018, Iranian forces in Syria sent an Iranian attack drone across the border into Israeli airspace; the drone was downed by an Israeli army helicopter. Israel then bombed the base and the command and control vehicle that had launched the drone, and...

Introduction
Political elements in the West are framing the December 2017-January 2018 popular uprising in Iran as a clash of Iran's reformist and pragmatic camps – the latter led by Iranian President Hassan Rohani – with the Iranian regime's ideological circles. They have ad...

Introduction
On January 11, 2018, the Telegram channel of the jihadi organization in Syria Jaysh Al-Badiya ("The Desert Army") published a photo of some of its fighters and fighters from another jihadi organization in Syria, Jaysh Al-Malahem, en route to a battlefront in the s...

Introduction
On December 22, 2017, at the end of the eighth round of intra-Syrian talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, which focused on the topic of the ceasefire, the three countries sponsoring the talks – Iran, Russia and Turkey – announced that a national dialogue conference would ...

Introduction
The Iranian regime is attributing the December 2017-January 2018 popular uprising in the country to two main factors. One is the public's access to the West-based Internet, and the other is the involvement of Iran's enemies, who seek to bring down the Islamic revo...

Iranian Majlis Member Gholamreza Heydari said in a February 20, 2019 interview with the IRNA News Agency (Iran) that Iran spends significant sums of money on religious seminaries, on “exporting the revolution through cultural channels,” on defense programs, on its missile industr...

In a February 17, 2019 interview on Al-Hawyah TV (Yemen), pro-Houthi Yemeni Salafi politician Muhammad Tahir An'am said that the Yemeni people's unwillingness to normalize relations with Israel reflects their Islamic background and Pan-Arab affiliation. He said that hatred of the...

Jordanian analyst Khaled Al-Majali said in a February 17, 2019 interview on Jordan Today TV that Jordanians wrongly blame the government for security problems and that prime ministers in Jordan do not have any real authority. He said that Jordan’s internal policies have brought t...

Hossein Shariatmadar, editor-in-chief of the Iranian newspaper Kayhan, said in a February 16, 2019 interview on Channel 1 TV (Iran) that today’s situation is very different than a time in the past when sanctions prevented Iranians from having even barbed wire and when Iran only h...

On February 17, 2019, IRINN TV and Channel 2 (Iran) aired reports about Iran's unveiling of the Fateh semi-heavy submarine, which one of the reports said is now in mass production. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani went to the Hormozgan Province to announce the addition of Fateh t...

Sudanese cleric 'Alaa Al-Din Al-Zaki said in a Tayba TV (Sudan) show on February 5, 2019 that the Jews epitomize trickery. He recounted a story from the Quran in which the Jews were turned into apes for casting their fishing nets on Friday in order to circumvent the prohibition o...

Former Lebanese MP Fares Souaid spoke with former Lebanese foreign minister Adnan Mansour about U.N. Resolution 1701 during a February 12, 2019 show on OTV (Lebanon). Mansour said that Lebanon is in a state of war because Israel regularly violates Resolution 1701, and Souaid argu...

Sheikh Muhammad Ma'moun Rahma delivered a Friday sermon at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria on February 8, 2019. He claimed that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion says that the Zionist Jews wanted to cause the collapse of the moral values of the Muslim nation in order to h...

New York Imam Abul Baraa Muhammad Abdullah Amreeki delivered a sermon in which he quoted verses in the Quran that said that Muslims should not take Jews and Christians as allies. He said that it is very common today for Muslims to spy on, covertly monitor, and "entrap" other Musl...

On February 10, 2019, IRINN TV (Iran) aired a report on Iran's underground "missile cities" that provide missiles for Iran's launchers and silos. The reporter said that the ballistic missiles are the "residents" of these cities and that they are "keepers of the calm" that are "re...

Nation of Islam official Dr. Wesley Muhammad, a scholarly aid to NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, spoke at the 2019 Saviours' Day Convention in Chicago that was streamed live on the Internet on February 17, 2019. He said that it is Jewish genius that is responsible for the "scientific...

Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist Michael A. Hoffman II spoke at the 2019 Saviours' Day Convention in Chicago that was streamed live on the Internet on February 17, 2019. He said that the Babylonian Talmud contains a teaching that Jesus is boiling in Hell in excrement, and...

Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, delivered a four-hour keynote address at the 2019 Saviours' Day Convention in Chicago that was streamed live on the Internet on February 17, 2019. Farrakhan said that certain people who call themselves Jews to hide thei...

Ata Abu Rmeila, the secretary of Fatah's branch in Jenin, was shown brandishing an assault rifle and surrounded by cheering Palestinian men in a video that was uploaded to the internet on February 17, 2019. Gunshots could be heard in the background and the men chanted: "With our ...

In a February 14, 2019 broadcast on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), the mother of Muhammad Said Muhammad Ali, a 19-year old Palestinian who was killed when he attacked Israeli policemen with a knife at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, said that her son had been "a lion." She praised how he w...

Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech that aired on Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) on Februay 17, 2019 that President Trump is the greatest hypocrite on the face of the Earth for claiming that the U.S. defeated ISIS. Nasrallah said that the U.S. actually hindered t...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said in a February 17, 2019 speech that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a "small-time employee of the Americans." He added that every inch of Syria will be liberated and that whoever tries to interfere will be treated as an enemy. In add...

On February 15, 2019, the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) uploaded to its Telegram channel a music video calling Muslims to Jihad. The video portrays the activities of TIP and Uyghur Muslims in Syria. Sung and Turkmen with Arabic and English subtitles, the song says: "The disbeliev...

Former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Al-Maliki said in a meeting with educators that aired on Afaq TV (Iraq) on February 12, 2019 that Iraqi society is under "a dangerous attack" in the form of moral depravity that is taking place in the universities and elsewhere. He said that th...

Iranian ideologue Mehdi Taeb, who is the head of the "Ammar Strategic Advisory Base" in Iran, said in a video that was uploaded to Iranian website Kheybar.net on November 29, 2018 that the Jews control the media throughout the world and that they are behind ISIS. He also claimed ...

During a March 15, 2015 broadcast on Peace TV English (UAE), Indian cleric Dr. Zakir Naik said that the Jews own and control the U.S. Federal Reserve and the world's interest-based banking system. Peace TV is a nonprofit satellite network that is based in Dubai, UAE. Dr. Naik is ...

Lebanese philosopher Dr. Ali Harb was featured in a two-part series on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) that aired on February 3 and 10, 2019. He said that while colonialism had its drawbacks, it created great opportunities for the Arab world and Arab societies to join modernity and emerge out...

Egyptian researched Mohamed Gad El-Zoghby was asked in a February 9, 2019 interview on Safa TV (Saudi Arabia/Egypt) who was worse: Adolf Hitler or Imam Khomeini. He answered: "Objectively speaking, Hitler wins. But as far as we're concerned, we should erect a statue of Hitler for...

In a February 5, 2019 interview on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV (Lebanon), Lebanese political analyst Anis Naqqash, speaking from Tehran, said that Iran is an Islamic republic and not a democratic republic. He explained that the idea that democracy is the salvation for all peoples is ...

Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub said in a February 9, 2019 interview on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) that the way to achieve regional peace and stability is to end the suffering of the Palestinians and confront the Israeli occupation. He said that Netanyahu was ...

A February 11, 2019 report on Kerman TV (Iran) showed Iranian children participating in rallies marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Various children told the reporter that they respond to the call of the Leader, that they are willing to "pay with [their] lives...

Gazan scholar Dr. Muhammad Suleiman Al-Farra, a lecturer at the Shari'a and Law College of the Islamic University of Gaza, said in a February 3, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that it is a religious duty to fight the Jews in Palestine who, he said, occupy the land, vio...

In a February 8, 2019 interview on Al-Nujaba TV (Iraq), Sunni cleric and Chairman of the Society of Muslim Scholars in Lebanon Ahmad Al-Zein said that he believed in Khomeini and Khamenei's vision that Israel's demise is inevitable. He said that the "twisted logic" of 15 million ...

On February 7, 2019, Channel 1 TV (Iran) aired a report about the IRGC's unveiling of a top-secret underground ballistic missile factory and the Dezful smart surface-to-surface ballistic missile. The factory and missile were unveiled in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Islami...

French Islamic studies researcher and founder of the group "Talk to Me About Islam" Kahina Bahloul was interviewed on France 24 Arabic channel on February 8, 2019. Bahloul will be leading prayers in Paris' first mixed-gender mosque, and she said that the mosque will allow women t...

Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei's representative in the Hormozgan Province, Ayatollah Gholamali Naeimabadi, said in a Friday, February 1, 2019 sermon in Bandar Abbas that the Islamic Revolution will continue on its path, and that the Iranian people can become "good friends" of Ay...

During a December 26, 2018 Jordan Today TV debate about underage marriage, Abd Al-Haleem Al-Houshosh, the head of the Jordanian Association of Shari'a Lawyers, said that the marrying off of girls under the age of 18 prevents sexual harassment and that the advantages of underage m...

Iranian General Habibollah Sayyari, the Deputy Army Chief for Coordination Affairs and former commander of the Iranian navy, said during a February 5, 2019 interview on Channel 4 TV (Iran) that Iran has been present in international waters since 2008, when the Supreme Leader gave...

On January 27, 2019, an antisemitic lecture by Michigan-based Shi'ite Imam Bassem Al-Sheraa was uploaded to the YouTube channel of the Al-Zahraa Islamic Center, which is in Detroit. Al-Sheraa said that the Jews have distorted sacred texts and sanctioned the killing of prophets su...

Mohammed Sadeq Al-Hosseini, a former advisor to Iran’s president, said in a February 6, 2019 interview on Russia Today TV that Iran’s military capabilities are “directed towards Palestine,” and that Iran is sending weapons to Gaza and the West Bank. He explained that Iran support...

On February 8, 2019, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a speech on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. The speech aired on Channel 1, Iranian TV. Khamenei said that the Americans are the epitome of evil and that they complain that the Iranian peopl...

On February 6, 2019, Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hizbullah, delivered a speech at an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. He praised Iran for supporting Palestinian, Lebanese, and regional resistance movements, and said that Iran was ...

Ayatollah Lotfollah Dezhkham, Khamenei's representative in Fars Province, Iran, delivered a Friday sermon in Shiraz that aired on Fars TV (Iran) on February 1, 2019. He said that Imam Khomeini would have never given up when it comes to the matter of Palestine and that it is one o...

In a February 3, 2019 interview on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon), Jaafar Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, said that U.S. President Trump has "gotten the world used to his stupidity" and that the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades will not allow any American presence in Iraq...

In a January 20, 2019 interview on OTV (Lebanon), Lebanese actress Marinelle Sarkis said that she does not oppose civil marriage and that she believes in freedom of choice, even as a practicing Christian. She said she also supports premarital sex so that couples do not find out t...

On February 4, 2019, Pittsburgh imam Naeem Abdullah uploaded a video titled "Setting the Record Straight and Addressing the Slanderous Attacks against Me!" in response to media backlash following MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 7868, particularly a February 2 article by Peter Smith in...

New Jersey-based Imam Mateen Khan said during a lecture at the Muslim Center of Middlesex County, NJ, (MCMC) that liberalism is a philosophy that requires everybody to adopt it, and that holds that those who don't accept liberalism are a threat. Giving the example of Afghanistan,...

Palestinian Journalist Hussam Al-Dajany, who also lectures at Gaza Open University, said in a January 30, 2019 interview on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) that Hamas is accepting Bitcoin donations. He said that Bitcoin is an opportunity to unite people who are afraid to or cannot openly...

On February 4, 2019, Iranian journalist and military expert Mehdi Bakhtiari reported on Iran's ballistic missiles. He said that Iran's newest, most important, and most destructive missile is the Khorramshahr missile, which he said uses liquid fuel and has a range of 2,000 kilomet...

In a January 30, 2019 interview on Al-Hurra TV (U.S.), UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammed Qarqash said that despite Iran's claims that its missiles are for purposes of deterrence, they are being exported to Yemen and Syria and being used against Saudi citize...

On January 30, 2019, Channel 1 TV (Iran) aired a report about a military exhibition that took place at the Imam Khomeini Grand Prayer Grounds in Tehran. The exhibition showed Iranian military equipment that the reporter described as "the power of 40 years of revolution." Showing ...

On February 1, 2019, IRINN TV (Iran) aired a computer-generated animation of an American aircraft carrier and four destroyers being sunk by an Iranian Ghadir-class submarine. At the end of the animation, a titled reading "40 Years [For the Iranian Revolution]" appears, and a narr...

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, was interviewed on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on January 30, 2019. He said that Iran is neither rich nor poor when it comes to uranium and that it is working to produce a strategic uranium reserve. He said that testin...

A video showcasing Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham's special forces training camp was uploaded to the Internet on January 30, 2019. The narrator explained that the special forces training stands out for its focus on concentration, instinctive shooting, weapons proficiency, and day and night...

Professor Maher Al-Susi, who teaches at the Islamic University of Gaza's shari'a school, said during a January 4, 2019 broadcast on Al-Quds TV (Lebanon) that it is a problem that Muslim intellectuals are accepting secular Western ideas such as separation of religion and state. He...

Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the IRGC, said on Channel 2 TV (Iran) on February 2, 2019, that Iran has the experience and technological ability necessary to expand the stealth capabilities, destructive capacity, and range of its missile force, and that it has not done s...

Heshmat-Allah Falahat Pishe, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Majlis, was interviewed on Russia Today TV on February 1,2019. Pishe denied that he had accused Russia of collaborating with Israel in Syria against Iran. However, he asked ...

On February 2, 2019, IRINN TV, the Iranian news channel, aired a report on Iran's new "Hoveizeh" cruise missile. IRGC General Mohamed Azizi Delshad, top advisor to Iran’s minister of defense, said: “It has a powerful warhead, due to the special explosives installed in it. Precisi...

On a January 29, 2019 show on Jordan Today TV, Jordanian political activist and head of the Aqaba chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Khaled Al-Jihni said that Israel’s new Ramon Airport near Eilat is built on occupied Jordanian land and that the ent...

IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami said during a speech that aired on Channel 1 TV (Iran) on December 30, 2018 that Iran's influence and the influence of Supreme Leader Khamenei have "managed to save important parts of the Islamic world from the political control of the superpo...

On January 30, 2019, Channel 2 TV (Iran) aired a report about the delivery of 30 tons of yellowcake from the Shahid Rezaeinzhad industrial complex in Ardakan, Iran to the Isfahan UCF nuclear plant, where the uranium will be enriched. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energ...

In a video he uploaded to social media on January 24, 2019, Iraqi Sunni politician Taha Al-Dulaimi accused the Shiites of welcoming the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003 and of subsequently claiming that they had expelled the Americans when the occupation withdrew. He mockingly sai...

Pittsburgh-based imam Na'eem Abdullah said during a sermon that was uploaded to the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute's YouTube channel on June 22, 2018, that black Americans need to understand that they are "under occupation." He compared the current situation of the black man in America ...

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, who is a member of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, said during a broadcast that aired on Channel 1 TV (Iran) on December 21, 2018 that Iran's global influence extends into Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and ...

Pittsburgh-based Imam Na'eem Abdullah delivered several Friday sermons and lectures that were uploaded between October 2016 and December 2018 to the YouTube channel of the Nur Uz-Zamaan Institute. In a video that was uploaded on October 15, 2016, Abdullah said that the American E...

In a speech that aired on Ofogh TV (Iran) on November 7, 2018, IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami said that there are Lebanese, Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Iranians, and Yemenis in Syria, and that the "united Islamic army… necessary to wipe out the wrongdoers" has been formed...

During an Iranian parliament on January 28, 2019, MP Ali Adiyani criticized Iranian FM Javad Zarif for joining the JCPOA despite having said that he does not trust the United States. Adiyani said that the JCPOA achieved none of the things that Zarif had said it would. Zarif respo...

American-born Imam Suhaib Webb, born Willie Webb, delivered a speech titled "Struggle for Social Justice" at the ICNA-MAS Convention held on May 28, 2016 in Baltimore, MD. Imam Webb said that he feels awkward talking about social justice as a white, blue-eyed, blonde-haired Ameri...

In his weekly fatwa session, which he uploads to his YouTube channel, Kuwaiti cleric Othman Al-Khamis said that apostates must be killed. In a video uploaded on January 9, 2019, Sheikh Al-Khamis said that apostasy is tantamount to scorning Islam. In an October 14, 2015 vide...

Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah made his first media appearance since November 2018 in an interview on Mayadeen TV, which aired also on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) on January 26, 2019. Nasrallah said that Hizbullah has a complete plan for how it would invade th...

Ayatollah Lotfollah Dezhkham, Khamenei's representative in the Fars Province of Iran, delivered a Friday sermon in the city of Shiraz on January 25, 2019. Ayatollah Dezhkham said that the Iranian people are fighting and awaiting the day when the banner of Islam will fly all over ...

On January 16, 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) released a video showing Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad, also known as Abu Ridwan Al-Canadi, a Canadian ISIS media operative that they arrested in the Deir Al-Zour region of eastern Syria. In the video, an injured Ab...

On January 7, 2019, Ofogh TV (Iran) aired a video clip about Iran's space capabilities. The video detailed Iran's first successful satellite launch, which took place in 2009, and gave information about Iran's Safir, Navid, Simorgh, and Ghaem carrier rockets, which are used to car...

During an interview that aired on Channel 1 (Iran) on November 3, 2018, IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami said that America has failed to achieve any of its political goals in the Middle East and that it is strategically confused. He claimed that there is no evidence to suppor...

On January 18, 2019, a Gazan comedian Ali Nassman uploaded a satirical music video to his YouTube channel. The song shows Nassman and other young men dressed in humorous costumes and singing: "Hurry up, oh Qatar, where are your dollars and diesel?... The people are besieged and i...

In a January 19, 2019 broadcast on Al-Baeenah TV (Iraq), Iraqi MP and former governor of Basra Khalaf Abdelsamad Khalaf asked: "How come the world media still talk about Hitler in a negative way?" He said that Hitler's crimes were not that much worse than Saddam Hussein's. Khalaf...

Moroccan-born French-Jewish Holocaust denier Jacob Cohen delivered a talk titled “The Holocaust and the Zionist Agenda” at the Lawyer’s Club in Rabat, Morocco, at an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of what the organizers termed “the 2008 Gaza Holocaust.” Cohen said that ...